Contributors

CONTRIBUTORS Miguel Centellas is an assistant professor of political science at Mount Saint Mary’s University in Emmitsburg, Maryland. He was recently a visiting professor and interim director of Latin American Studies at Dickinson College. His research focuses on democratic institutions in new democracies, with a special interest in the difficult relationship between democratization and shifts in political imaginaries. He is currently working on a book on post-democratization Bolivian politics and also on a collaborative project on the effects of electoral system reform. Adriana Novoa is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Humanities and American Studies at the University of South Florida. Her areas of specialization are modern Argentine history, gender studies, and cultural studies in Latin America. James F. Siekmeier received his PhD from Cornell in 1993. He has taught in Iowa, Bolivia, Texas, and Washington, DC. He has also worked for the Office of the Historian at the US Department of State, working on the Latin American volumes in the Foreign Relations of the United States series, the US government’s official documentary record of U.S. foreign policy. Currently assistant professor of history at West Virginia University , he is completing a manuscript entitled From Ike to Che: the Bolivian Revolution and the United States, 1952–1971. C  2008 Southeastern Council on Latin American Studies and Wiley Periodicals, Inc. 1 ...